Example sentences of "cancel [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
2 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
3 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |
4 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
5 | A planned visit by the king to Timisoara on Christmas Eve was cancelled at the last minute because of restrictions imposed by the government . |
6 | Unfortunately the October meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute through lack of support . |
7 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
8 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
9 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
10 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
11 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |
12 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
13 | Her distraught South African fiance Cuan Cronje had planned to accompany the two women on their safari trip but cancelled at the last minute . |
14 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
15 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |